{"id":2747,"date":"2021-01-03T19:36:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T00:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2021-01-19T01:15:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T06:15:09","slug":"best-albums-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=2747","title":{"rendered":"Best Albums of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I appreciate the critical art of evaluating an entire year’s worth of albums and honing it down to a list of 10 essential releases that were arguably the most important or noteworthy\u00a0of that year, I didn’t feel like giving in to that particular convention since 2020 certainly didn’t follow convention\u00a0(or even civil etiquette) either. Time not seeing live bands, haunting record stores and supporting local venues was instead spent mailordering a shit ton of music and prowling Bandcamp for hours on end finding nuggets of sonic salvation to help push through this most unfortunate of years. So instead of the usual list of my top\u00a010\u00a0albums, here are my top twenty\u2026<\/p>\n

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ADULT.<\/strong> – Perceptions Is\/As\/Of Deception\u00a0<\/em>(Dais)
\nReleased in April 2020, this Detroit duo’s latest batch of icy electro darkwave couldn’t have been more\u00a0fitting\u00a0during the early\u00a0weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic. Adam Lee Miller’s\u00a0unrelenting EBM pulse plodding under Nicola Kuperus’\u00a0commanding howl\u00a0unwittingly made a fitting soundtrack for the isolation, misinformation, and social unrest that followed its release. Stylistically, this album\u00a0has a more\u00a0weathered aesthetic than their previous albums, as the punchiness of the EBM beat here is less Front 242\/Nitzer Ebb glare and more haunted Clock DVA\/Skinny Puppy creepy crawl, but it’s still lively\u00a0enough to reveal a prescient and chilling worldview that ADULT. has been bringing into focus since 1998.<\/p>\n